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Loving God, you who hold all truth in your hands, This morning I sit with the uncomfortable words of your Son: "Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you." I confess that sometimes the enemy I struggle to...
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In the vibrant hills of Colombia, where the colors of life seem to dance in rhythm with the wind, the Madrigal family resides in a magical home that reflects their gifts. Yet, amidst this wonder, a shadow looms — the...
In June 2019, a group of climbers spent eleven days on Denali, the highest peak in North America, waiting out storms at base camp. Fog...
In 155 AD, the Roman proconsul in Smyrna gave the aged bishop Polycarp one simple way to save his life: curse Christ and swear by...
In 1942, Clarence Jordan — a man with a doctorate in Greek from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary — did something his colleagues found baffling. Instead...
In December 1938, twenty-nine-year-old Nicholas Winton arrived in Prague and found something that shattered his plans. Hundreds of Jewish families, desperate and hunted, were begging...
For eleven years, Dorothy Chen stood at the corner of Maple and Third in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, guiding children safely across the street. She knew...
For nearly fifty years, Mother Teresa carried a secret. Letters published after her death revealed that the woman the world celebrated as a saint of...
In the spring of 1945, Private First Class Desmond Doss stood atop the Maui Escarpment on Okinawa — a jagged, thirty-five-foot cliff the soldiers called...
When Dietrich Bonhoeffer boarded a ship back to Germany in July 1939, he was walking away from safety. He had just arrived in New York,...
In 2018, a couple from Chicago named Marcus and Elena drove through rural Kentucky searching for a renowned woodworker whose hand-carved furniture had gained a...
In 2019, a registered nurse named Clara Jennings transferred to Ward Seven of Cook County Hospital in Chicago — the unit everyone avoided. Ward Seven...
In June 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stood on the deck of a ship bound for New York, watching the German coastline disappear. Friends had arranged a...
In August 1732, two young Moravian men — Johann Leonhard Dober, a potter, and David Nitschmann, a carpenter — stood on a dock in Copenhagen,...
In 2018, a journalism student named Marcus Chen sat in a Chicago diner across from his grandfather, a man who had survived China's Cultural Revolution...
Clara Gutierrez was eleven years old when her father took a job that kept him behind a closed office door most evenings. She would stand...
James Whitfield spent three days on his hands and knees in the backyard, sifting through mulch and overturning stepping stones. His wedding band had slipped...
In the heart of one of the most brutal battles of World War II, amidst the cacophony of gunfire and the cries of the wounded, there stood a man named Desmond Doss—a conscientious objector who believed deeply in the sanctity...
For thirty-seven years, Gerald Howell climbed the spiral stairs of the Cape Bonavista Lighthouse in Newfoundland every evening at dusk. Even after the Canadian government...
In adoption finalization hearings across the country, there comes a moment when everything else falls silent. The social worker reports have been filed. The home...
Every autumn, the ruby-throated hummingbird — a creature weighing barely three grams — launches itself from the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and flies five hundred...
In December 2022, a Southwest Airlines meltdown stranded thousands of passengers across the country. At Baltimore-Washington International, Gate D7 became a pressure cooker — canceled...
Margaret Chen knocked on her neighbor Ruth's kitchen door every Tuesday morning for three years. The first time, she came asking to borrow a cup...